Microbial Systems Ecology Lab

We are incredibly grateful to have spent three inspiring days in beautiful Blonay at our annual group retreat, discussing science and continuing our group tradition of forming human pyramids! 🤸

04.07.2025 13:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to share our new work! We found that bacteria can turn antagonism into a foraging strategy - by killing their neighbours, and eating their remains 🧫🔬💥

13.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

How does metabolic dependency evolve at the single cell level? 🔄

In our new preprint, Divvya Ramesh combines microfluidics, microscopy and modelling to show that the benefits of gene loss are highly context dependent.

Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Olga Schubert from @eawag.bsky.social / @ethzurich.bsky.social on Causes and consequences of collective metabolism in microbial communities
#KNVM2025

01.04.2025 12:30 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Check out our new perspective on spatial patterns in microbial communities, the product of an exciting collaboration led by Alyssa Henderson and @adelpanta.bsky.social ! 🧫

20.02.2025 15:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We are so thrilled that Martin and Olga have won the Art of Leadership (ALEA) award - for being incredible group leaders who give us independence, support, trust, and ultimately prioritise our wellbeing above all else. We are so grateful to be co-led by them!

26.11.2024 19:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

A framework for understanding collective microbiome metabolism - Nature Microbiology This Perspective explores why microbiome members perform partial metabolism of substrates and suggests that proteome efficiency is a driver of collective microbiome metabolism.

Thrilled to announce that Matthias Hülsmann's new perspective is now out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social! This exciting work is shaping how our group thinks about collective microbiome metabolism. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.11.2024 12:45 — 👍 49    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Check out this new preprint on antagonism as a foraging strategy, led by the brilliant Astrid Stubbusch and @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social!

18.11.2024 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

How can concepts from ecology enable insights about cellular communities? Historically, microbiology has been markedly concerned with pathogens and their modes of action. Upon Koch’s revolutionary finding that microorganisms can be causal of disease, understandably, there w...

Grateful for the opportunity to share my enthusiasm and thoughts on microbial ecology and bacterial communities in Cell Systems! What an exciting time to contribute to this fascinating field and to adress the „macro in the micro“. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

29.10.2024 07:26 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Check out our new paper, led by Astrid Stubbusch and @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social on bacterial degradation-dispersal cycles, out in @elife.bsky.social!

28.10.2024 14:59 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0